Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi was a 14th-centuryPersian^[1] physician andSufi living inIndia. He died in 1350.

According to a statement in a manuscript now at TheNational Library of Medicine, Nakhshabi himself transcribed and illustrated a Persian translation made of a Hindi version of aSanskrit treatise on sexual hygiene.

There are 5 full-page miniatures painted in a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt and two half or three-quarter miniatures, all of a provincialMughal style typical of north-west India, especiallyKashmir, in the 18th century.

No other particulars are known of Nakhshabi.

There are, however, a number of other Persian manuscripts which associate the name Ziya' Nakhshabi or Dhiya' al-Din Nakhshabi with versions of this ultimatelySanskrit treatise on sexual hygiene. And he is also known to have edited and added his own verses to a Persian translation calledTutinama of a Sanskrit collection of 52 tales narrated by a parrot (tuti in Persian) and a nightingale (sharak) to a woman in order to keep her away from a lover while her husband, a traveling merchant, was absent.

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For treatises attributed to him, see Fateme Keshavarz, A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986), pp 377–378 no 211 and pp 633–634 no 450.

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